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"You know this is just typical" Jack started when Tara stopped talking out of breath
"What is typical?" she asked happy that he was speaking.
Jack tried to shrug his shoulders " Everything, this entire situation the explosion, always, always when I've finally planed everything something like that had to happen"
"Planed?" Tara's eyes widened in terror "Jack what exactly did you plan? What were you going to do?"
" I wanted to talk with Sue, you know, use a last chance to tell her to... to confess... "
"Jack you wanted to confess her that you love her before her marriage ceremony of all times?" Tara gasped seeing his faint blush "Oh Jack!"
"Yeah well, the story of my life!" Jack offered her miserable smile
"For God's sake, stop feeling sorry for yourself Hudson!" Myles's voice sounded much closer then before "Of all idiotic ideas I've heard about this one is the worst, what are you a twelve-year-old schoolboy? Maybe even you wanted to stop the marriage ceremony with the traditional I OBJECT? And then she would have jumped into your arms and you would have lived happily ever after? Like in some cheap novelette? "
"Myles " Tara murmured with anxiety staring at Jack " Lay it off! "
" Don't Myles me Tara! It's him you should have been scolding not me! It's high time to tell agent Hudson a few words of truth. Stunts like that don't work in real life!" the big brickbat fell down with the clatter and in a muzzle appeared Myles's dusted face" Hello Tippy, did you miss me? " he winked at his friends
"Truth? What kind of truth? " Jack muttered offended watching Myles crawling through the little hole with Tara's help. Once steady Myles reciprocated Tara hug and brushed off her concerns with a wave of his hand. He was safe and mostly sound, not counting many bruises and scratches. He wished he could have said the same about his expensive Armani suite.
" Important truths Jack, and looks like that this particularly unpleasant duty falls on me," Myles inspected and then gently pushed the rubble pressing Jack's legs. He only succeed in evoking a moan of pain from the Jack's mouth. It didn't look good. Myles didn't want to risk touching anything now. If Jack felt pain, it meant that his spinal cord wasn't damaged and at least at the moment Myles preferred not to risk moving Jack in fear that instead of helping he would make it worst. They had to wait.
"Myles, don't tease him, you will finish this talk later" Tara admonished gently, it wasn't a time for such conversation "we better think a way out of here"
" Right Tippy " Myles nodded his head agreeing with the second of her suggestions and looked around. They didn't have a lot of choices with the pregnant Tara and Jack pinned to the ground. What remained of the underground parking changed into the jumble of rubble. In short: they were in the trap and needed a miracle.
"Wait here and I will try to look around, maybe I will find some water or something like that" he proposed looking with concern at Tara's pale face and drowsy Jack. It was getting colder and darker.
"Just watch over yourself Myles" Tara pleaded
"Don't worry your pretty head about that" Myles bent pretending to hug her and whispered quietly so that Jack couldn't hear it "Tara, talk to him, he cannot lose consciousness, irritate him, amuse, get him nervous, but make sure his conscious " Tara smiled bravely. She could do it.
Lucy trembled at the sight of damage. It was terrifying. In the place where a few hours ago a federal building had stood now were only ruins.
" Sue, Lucy " D immediately embraced two shaking women offering them his support and shook David's hand in gratitude "Thank God you're here"
" Do we know anything? Are they in there? " Lucy whispered in fear
" No, we have nothing confirmed yet" D answered
" So there is still a hope, they could have come out before the explosion? " Sue asked with hope but D denied it quickly making all hope disappear " I'm so sorry Sue..."
" That is just unbelievable! How could anything like that happen? And where is Bobby?" David asked looking around searching the tall agent
" He's right there " D pointed at the agent which had already lost his jacket and now was in the middle of discussion with a rescue team " They try to find a way inside without inundating whatever remained " D explained. He didn't want to say them everything, he didn't want to repeat what firefighters had said earlier, didn't want to tell them that according to firefighters Tara, Myles and Jack were already gone.
Bobby at the sight of girls tried to smile but the only thing he managed to come up with was a heartbreaking grimace and Sue felt her own heart leaping to her throat, at the sight of his grayish out of fear and twisted in pain face. For a moment she forgot about her own worries about Jack and her heart went out to her friend.
"I can lose them Sue, I can lose them both, Tara and our baby " Bobby whispered brokenly
" Oh Bobby" Sue hugged him with all her might "you won't lose them! " she assured "God won't take them away from us, none of them " she added dragging crying Lucy to them with the other hand. They stood like that embracing each other and praying for the life of their love-ones.
" How's the baby?" Jack asked seeing Tara massaging her prominent tummy. He was somehow accustomed to that view, but usually next to Tara's dandy hand had rested a much bigger hand of her husband who hadn't been able to tear himself away from the expanding tummy of his wife.
" He is as strong as his Dad!" Tara joked bravely trying to hide her fear. It wasn't a good place for a pregnant woman, heck it wasn't a good place for any of them.
" Do you think it is done already? " Jack asked avoiding her eyes.
" Done? " Tara asked changing her position, her back was killing her.
" You know, the marriage ceremony!" Jack clarified upset "do you think that it's already over? "
Tara could only gape at him with her mouth open wide.
"Figures, of course it's done "
"Jack, you idiot! " she punched him
" Hey!" he protested "you're hitting a wounded men here! "
" I'm hitting a complete and utter fool!" Tara snapped " really Jack, do you honestly believe that Sue carried on with it knowing what happened here? Knowing that we are stuck here ? If you do, then you really don't deserve her! "
Jack looked at her speechless by her outburst. He blinked and only now realised the truth behind her words
" I'm an idiot"
Myles looked up frowning, in a distance he spotted a stream of light. Light indicated that the surface and the safety were achingly close. He just had to climb there. He could have try it and maybe even would make it, but what about Tara and Jack? Myles turned his head towards the place where he had left his friends and just at that moment above their heads the other explosion sounded.
HOW WAS THAT?